Question

I was wondering if its possible to exclude data from an wraparound page footer based on which content is loaded into the index page in ColdFusion

Roughly it would be something like.

 IF (not = pageToBeExcluded)

     THEN {
     Show content

     }

Answer 1

There are any number of ways to do that.

The simplest is probably to key on the page address.

<cfif CGI.SCRIPT_NAME DOES NOT CONTAIN "someArbitraryPage.cfm">
  <!--- show this content --->
  ...
</cfif>

As mentioned, you might want to use getCurrentTemplatePath() or getBaseTemplatePath().

Personally, I would probably set a variable in the template where I want this to happen. The main benefit of this is that I don’t need to keep changing my footer code every time I add (or remove) a file from my list of files where I want this.

<!--- in the template itself --->
<cfset request.suppressFooterContent = true>

Then, in the footer:

<cfparam name="request.suppressFooterContent" default="false">
<cfif NOT request.suppressFooterContent>
  <!--- display content here --->
  ...
</cfif>